Oatmeal Thumbprints

Name: Oatmeal Thumbprints
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 118 milliliters firmly packed brown sugar; 227 grams cup butter, at room temperature; 1 large egg, separated; 237 milliliters all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters About fruit jam; 473 milliliters rolled oats; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 355 milliliters finely chopped walnuts

Oatmeal Thumbprints is a vegetarian recipe with 36 servings. One serving contains 147 calories, 2g of protein, and 9g of fat. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up walnuts, fruit jam, egg, and a few other things to make it today. Not a lot of people really liked this dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a bowl, with an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter, brown sugar, egg yolk, and vanilla until smooth. Stir or beat in flour and oats until well blended.

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Brown Sugar

Egg Yolk

Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Oats

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

In a small bowl, beat egg white and 2 teaspoons water to blend. Put walnuts in a shallow bowl. Shape dough into 2-teaspoon-size balls and dip in egg white mixture; shake off excess, then roll in walnuts.

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Egg Whites

Walnuts

Dough

Dip

Water

Roll

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Bowl

Place 1 inch apart on buttered or cooking parchment-lined 12- by 15-inch baking sheets. Press your thumb into the center of each cookie to make a 1/2-inch-deep indentation.

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Baking Sheet

Bake cookies in a 300 oven until lightly browned, about 15 minutes; if baking more than one pan at a time, switch pan positions halfway through baking.

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Oven

Frying Pan

Carefully fill each indentation with about 1 teaspoon jam (if indentations have disappeared, make them again with the rounded end of a wooden spoon). Return to oven and bake until cookies are golden brown and jam has melted, about 15 minutes longer. With a wide spatula, transfer cookies to racks to cool completely.

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Jam